The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir. By Sir James
Donie. (Cambridge University Press. 6e. net.)—This is the second volume of a series of "Provincial Geographies of India," which ought to be widely read. The author, who was Acting Lieutenant. Governorof the Punjab at his retirement, gives a very full account of the two provinces and the great native State of Kashmir, which includes in its borders the stupendous Karakorams, their peaks and glaciers, described by so many daring climbers. There is an abundance of maps and illustrations, and portraits of native rulers and British officials. The chapter on the canals is a wonderful story of wise administration. The Punjab canals, mostly quite modern, irrigate nearly eight and a half million acres. The Lower Chenab Canal alone has since 1892 turned an uninhabited desert of three million acres into a fertile country with a million inhabitants, and has already repaid its capital twice over. The Public Works. Department is doubtless ready to work similar miracles in Mesopotamia.
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